The California Attorney General's Office recently issued a set of guidelines, titled "Making Your Privacy Practices Public" ("Guidelines"), designed to help companies develop "meaningful" privacy policies that provide transparency, accountability, and choice for online users. The Guidelines build on prior publications by the California Attorney General and consolidate and update existing recommendations. The Guidelines also specifically add new recommendations concerning adoption of so-called "Do Not Track" or "DNT" mechanisms.

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